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5th Annual Pediatric Telehealth Colloquium: Learn how telemedicine is changing pediatrics profession American Telemedicine Association Share     The 5th Annual Pediatric Telehealth Colloquium will be held as part of the ATA Mid-Year Meeting (Sept. 27 and 28 in Baltimore). The Colloquium, already established as a premier event for the pediatric telehealth community, is dedicated to the presentation of original research related to pediatric telemedicine by investigators in clinical science. Topics of special interest include inpatient telemedicine, outpatient telemedicine, innovative pediatric telehealth applications, sustainability, quality of care, financial impact, novel technologies and telecommunications. More
Renewed effort to lure doctors to rural areas faces obstacles The Washington Post Share
Sarah Carricaburu slipped her sleek new iPhone into her purse for the day. With no signal here deep in the woods, it's useless. She swiveled away from her desktop computer, which can't access the Internet, and glanced at the manila folders of patient records neatly stacked on a shelf by nurses. "I grew up in the age of electronic medical records," said Carricaburu, 33, a primary care physician who was raised in the Washington suburbs. "Coming here was like stepping back in time. I would like to stay in a community health care setting, but here I didn't feel like I had the resources to do my job. You're cut off." More Promoting telemedicine to small towns KPLU-FM Share
 The distance between you and your doctor's office can be a major obstacle, especially if you're in a small town or rural area and specialists are far away. Telemedicine is one answer to that problem. Just like it's getting easier to have a video
chat at home, using a tiny webcam it's also easier to practice medicine across long distances. Seattle Children's Hospital has been building it's telemedicine connections to cities across Washington and as far as Missoula and Anchorage.
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Doctors rely on iPhones to guide treatment San Jose Mercury News Share
The mother charged into the emergency room unannounced carrying her 8-year-old daughter, who was having seizures and couldn't breathe. As she placed the girl on a gurney, Dr. Kathy Corby instinctively reached for her iPhone. "It was very tense," recalled Corby, an emergency room physician at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister, Calif. The child has a rare hereditary disease, and Corby needed to become an instant expert. So she began scanning a number of medical apps loaded onto her iPhone to access "everything you can't remember on your own in the midst of something like this." More Telemedicine allows university to go worldwide Lexington Herald-Leader Share
Room 411 in the Wethington building on the University of Kentucky campus was the heart of an international connection recently. Dr. Joseph Berger's lecture on a rare neurological disorder, Behçet's disease was heard not only by a room filled with white-coated doctors and medical students from the university, but it also was streamed live to doctors in Jordan, Brazil, Ethiopia and a slightly less exotic but equally important location, Morehead. Within the past few months, the traditional weekly grand rounds have gone global. More
Study: Texting improves medication adherence in teens with diabetes Healthcare IT News Share
A small pilot study at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, found that sending text reminders to adolescent diabetes patients about their insulin treatments improved treatment adherence and blood glucose levels. According to a 2010 report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. More Telemedicine for stroke victims Durango Herald News Share
Stroke victims, whose recovery depends on quick medical attention, now can be seen by a neurosurgeon in Denver via a new Skype-style hookup at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango. The Telemedicine Robot in the Mercy emergency department, one of 13 similar systems in the state tied to the Colorado Neurological Institute, consists of a camera, a screen and a microphone mounted on a wheeled stand. A keyboard is needed only for trouble-shooting the system itself. More
Telemedicine can be a remote lifesaver UPI Share
Oil rig workers and others working in remote locations are relying more on telemedicine visits with distant doctors and specialists, health professionals say. Work on an oil rig can be dangerous, with cuts, sprains, fractures and other injuries not uncommon, and ailments such as respiratory infections, asthma and heart attack can also pose a serious problem on a rig where access to medical professionals is limited, an article published in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health says. More Texts, tweets help an M.D. connect with her patients Ragan Share
Physicians get bogged down, even discouraged, by a flood of paperwork, insurance claims and litigious ordeals. But a pediatric endocrinologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, says social media has brought the joy back to her practice. With texting, joining Facebook and using Twitter, she says she's been able to make a difference and improve the quality of care she gives to patients. More
Survey: Video game technology embraced by med students HealthDay News Share
The vast majority of medical school students believe that technology in the form of virtual reality exercises could help them to develop the skills they will need as future doctors, a new survey reveals. The survey of 200 medical students from the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found nearly all believing the technology to be a definite aid to higher learning. More What percentage of US adults have ever gone online to look for health care information? iHealthBeat Share
Seventy-six percent of U.S. adults reported that they have looked for health information online, up from 67 percent in 2009, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. In 2004, 51 percent of U.S. adults reported looking online for health information, while just 27 percent said they had looked online for health information in 1998. More
ATA Telemedicine News Brief available through MultiBriefs app American Telemedicine Association Share
ATA understands the need to deliver timely, relevant news to its members. In partnering with MultiBriefs to create the ATA Telemedicine News Brief, the association committed itself to providing updates on a weekly basis. The ATA Telemedicine News Brief is now part of the new MultiBriefs app, available for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch in the App Store. Simply search "MultiBriefs" and download the app free of charge. After it's downloaded, you can add the ATA feed from the "Healthcare and Medical" section. News is streamed into your iPhone or iPod Touch each week. For those without iPhones, not to worry. We also have Blackberry and Droid versions. For Blackberry users, visit the Blackberry App World and search "MultiBriefs." Droid users can go to the Android Marketplace and search "MultiBriefs." |
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